CSI Unit 3A
App Development
Approximately 20 Days
Approximately 20 Days
Summary of Unit:
This unit introduces students to the basics of app design and designing/programming with a user in mind. It further helps solidify some of the skills and logic developed in the previous unit. The unit is fully housed within Code.Org but is divided between a standalone tutorial on App Lab and Computer Science Discoveries Unit 4 (lessons 9, 11, 12, 14-18, and 21). The goals include:
exploring user interface design elements.
learning to program in response to events from the user interface.
developing paper and digital prototypes utilizing App Lab.
designing and creating digital products with a user-centric method.
This link provides the sequence of lessons intended for use in Unit 3A, App Design. The timeline is an approximation of time per lesson. Use this sequence as the framework for Unit 3A: App Design. The links to specifics for each lesson can be found at the above link.